Bengt Ekerot
ActingBiography
Nils Bengt Folke Ekerot was a Swedish actor and director. He had several important roles in Swedish films, but he became immortalized in 1957 when he starred in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, portraying Death as a white-faced man in a black cloak, an archetype that has influenced the representation of Death in countless instances in film and other media since then. All in all Bengt Ekerot appeared in 35 feature films and directed 7 from 1940 to 1968. "He was wrestled with the conditions of his hunger. He cried over his violent appetite. The demons destroyed his beauty." Erland Josephson on Bengt Ekerot in "The Role"(Book 1989)
Movies
(37 total)
The Seventh Seal
as Death
The Magician
as Johan Spegel
Here Is Your Life
as Byberg
Who Saw Him Die?
as Eriksson
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
as radio man (voice) (uncredited)
On a Bench in a Park
as Sam Persson
Snapphanar
as Lille-Jonas
The Corridor
as Birger Olsson
Life's Just Great
as The neighbour
The Nuthouse
as A student
Jazz Boy
as Erik Jonsson
Ola and Julia
as Max
Flames in the Dark
as Åke Kronström
Crime and Punishment
as Student
Sceningång
as Johan Erikson
Interlude
as German patient
Rosen på tistelön
as Anton Haraldsson
We Home Toilers
as Linus Tallhagen
Sonja
as Bengt